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Singapore Airlines Business Class – SQ 631 | July 2025

Flew SQ 631 from Haneda to Singapore in Business Class this July. Excellent service, spacious seat, and a smooth daytime flight. Singapore Airlines continues to impress with comfort and attention to d ...

My First JAL Flight

Vlog review of my first JAL flight - an economy seat on JL724 from Kuala Lumpur to Narita. My First JAL Flight ...

1st Virgin Lounge Visit

We recently visited the Melbourne Virgin Australia Lounge, which was only my second ever visit to an airport lounge so wa ...

Caravan life

We've just recently started living in a caravan and we're absolutely loving it. Below are a few shots of our caravan. caravan1 ! ...

UPDATED Sourdough Bread Recipe

Sourdough Bread Ingredients Flour 567g Salt 2 teaspoons Sourdough starter 180ml or 113g Water 250ml or 340g Mix t ...

Kokorice V5

I've migrated my blog to VuePress :tada:. This is version 5 of this blog. Below I've listed previous versions of this blog: [SimpleBlog running on Plone](/2004/08/09 ...

Raspberry Pi-based Gate Control

I recently built a React web app running on a Raspberry-Pi to control our front gate. It also has a simple Homebridge interface allowing it to be controlled by Siri. You can checkout a video demonstra ...

Understanding human language with Python - Alyona Medelyan

Android Auto: hands-free operation via voice commands. WordLense: “augmented reality translation” “Her” movie in reality: “Siri will you marry me? Siri doesn’t seem to be available.” Segmentation c ...

Surprise features that you didn’t ask for - Mike Haworth

Server Side Request Forgery Could access services on localhost Access other hosts in DMZ Bypass host-based authentication systems Vulnerable systems: memcached couchdb Urllib: accepts fi ...

PyPy.js: What? How? Why? - Ryan Kelly

@rfkelly Mozilla - protecting & promoting the web. The Web? Technology + Culture (open - don’t need to submit to ‘web pool’, ubiquitous, secure, trustworthy) > “For Mozilla, anything that the W ...

Multimedia programming using Gstreamer (and, of course, Python) - Douglas Bagnall

Pipelines consist of linked elements. Elements: Link Source Sink (file, net, screen, etc) Demux, tee $ gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=video.ogv ! oggdemux ! theoradec ! autovideosink ...

Lightning Talks

LCA: 12-16 January 2015 Program online in next year or 2. Singapore also put in proposal for future LCA. 6-700 attendees hoped. Grabbed 30TBs of .co.nz internet. 2 days of catering, hacking. If ...

Deploying a Django application using Juju - Tim Penhey

Or “How I used Juju to deploy my Django app up to AWS” Used backbone.js Juju is written in Go. Service orchestration in the cloud. Encapsulate ap ...

Automated Deployment with Ansible - Juergen Brendel

Configuration - system packages, settings, users, apps CM Tools - describe the desired state. E.g. ensure all system packages are updated. Puppet, chef - feel bit like working with Java. Salt, Ansi ...

2nd Keynote: A Snake in Space - The rise of scientific Python in Astrodynamics and Astronomy - Francesco Biscani

Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, European Space Agency. PaGMO and Astropy - will mainly talk about PaGMO as wrote this and more familiar with this. PaGMO - Parallel Global Multiobjective Opti ...

Why Python Rocks Solaris - James McPherson

“Python is a systems-programming language also”. Why use? Lots of open source software uses Python. pstack: see what Python process is doing. Manage boot environment, managing package installation, ...

Python is slow, make it faster with C - Ben Shaw

C Module - traditional way. Write your functions in C (usually just wrapper code). CTypes - newer way since 2006. Integration a bit more difficult. Great to use if don’t need Python types, except ...

Packaging a Python desktop application using PyInstaller - Glenn Ramsey

Gathers the dependencies for your script and puts them all in a directory. Doesn’t actually create an installer and doesn’t include the source code. Works on Windows, OSX, Linux. Works with Python 2 ...

Using Python to test industrial control system frameworks at CERN - Andrew Amesbury

CERN: European Organisation for Nuclear Research. Potentially setback 3 years if test failed as can take 3 months to run test. CERN: 5 million data po ...

External dependencies in web apps: system libs are not that scary - Francois Marier

Common example: 250 external dependencies, 8 different copies of same app, 4 different versions. Have to patch same app 4x. Only use Python libraries that are packaged for Debian. Only use th ...